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The History Of the most Noble Order of the Garter : Wherein is set forth An Account of the Town Castle, Chapel, and College of Windsor; with their several Officers ; The Foundation of the Order by King Edward III. ; With the Statutes, and Annals at large, as they have been altered and amended ; An Account of the Habits, Ensigns and Officers of the Order ... To which is prefix'd, A Discourse of Knighthood in General, and the several Orders extant in Europe
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the Knight?, who conducted him into the Choir, fi r fttake the Mantle, and lay it on his Arm, next laying theirHands on him, in the Name of his Lord and Matterfrom whom he received his Deputation, fet him downtherein: And fo the Ceremony of Inftallation being fullyended, the Service of the Church begins.

If the Inttallaticn be performed in the Morning, thereis an Offering of Gold and Silver; at which time theProxy in his turn comes from his Principal’s Stall, andftands before it, and when the Sovereign, cr the Lieu,tenanc for him, and for himfelf, cr eife the Commif.fioners, and the reit of the Knights-Ccmpanions prefent,have offered, then the Proxy (being joined to the Knight,fitting in the eppafite Stall, if prefent at the Solemnity, andhaving two Officers of Arms before them ,) proceeds to theHigh Altar, and there offers both Gold and Silver; andthen returns, and takes his Stall as the reft do. In thismanner the Earl of pparmtl£$ Proxy, joining with theEarl of Northumberland, inftalied at the fame .time, pro-ceeded to the Offering, 5 El>%. As likewife the Prodorto the Earl cf Bedford, with the Lord Hunfdon, 6 Eds',

The Ceremony of the Offering being finished,the Serviceof the Church goes or, which being over, the Proceed-ing returns in the fame Order it came to the Chapter-Hsufe, except, thac now the Proxy takes his Place ac-cording to the Dignity of his Stall. But in regard theStatutes, exprefly declare ; That after the Proxy hathbeen admitted to his Principal’s Stall, he Shall neither wearthe Mantle, nor have any Voice in Chapter, nor enterthere in the abfence of him that fent him ; fo that it wasthe ancient Practice to take off the Mantle from his Armat the Chapter-Hcufe Doer, in his return from the Choir,and delivered to the Verger of the Chappel, thoughiometimes to the Sexton, at other times to Garter, alfoto the B’a:f Bpd, who haih taken it from off the ProxiesArm, and carried it into the Charter-Houfe; this done,the Proxy ret.res privately cue of the Proceeding to hisLodging.

It appears however, but by what indu’gence is notmentioned, that though Garter took the Mantle fromSir Henry Sidney, 5 Eli%. at the Chapter-Houfe Doer, onthe Evening he returned fruu Installation ; yet the next

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